Politics and Government

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opp...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Serv...

Federal grants finance essential government programs, like infrastructure, by transferring Federal dollars to State and local governments, nonprofi...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book compiles essays on major countries throughout the world, including Lebanon, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Israel, Iran, India, Thai...

The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward depl...

On 28 June 2007, the United States and Panama signed a free trade agreement (FTA) after two and half years and ten rounds of negotiations. This boo...

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

The United States seeks an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant; an Iraqi Government that is just, representative, and accountable; nei...

At this moment of economic crisis and uncertainty, the USA is being tested. This book presents a preliminary analysis of President Obama''''s budge...

The book embraces all aspects and sub-topics of the discipline of political science, not merely making surveys of them. It extracts the fundamental...

In September 1999, Russia''''s then-Premier Vladimir Putin ordered military, police, and security forces to enter the breakaway Chechnya region, re...

The field of nanocomposites involving organic or inorganic materials is a rapidly rising area of research and application development. In general n...

Much of the debate over U.S. policy toward Iran has centered on the nature of the current regime; some believe that Iran, a country of about 70 mil...

This book contains a variety of research related to the future of the federal budget. Significant uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projection...